Mar 9, 2022 | Cycling, Road Bikes, Road Cycling, SpeedX
See also “New Bike Day” (20 Feb 2017) It is now some 5 years since my SpeedX Leopard Pro was delivered, on a cold wet Thursday, at the end of January 2017. Most of the Leopards and Leopards Pro’s were delivered in the early part of, or towards the middle of 2017....
Jun 1, 2018 | Cycling, Road Cycling, SpeedX
A Favourite Brand – Freedom Cycle System: In the early days of the SpeedX saga, I came across the Freedom Cycle System on Kickstarter, the crowdfunding platform. It is an Australian project, launched by Tim Holmes and Steve Serpall. The Kickstarter campaign was...
Oct 25, 2017 | Bike Share, Bluegogo, Kickstarter, Road Bikes, SpeedX
Reports say that Bluegogo, China’s third largest bike sharing company, has closed and is totally bankrupt. Bluegogo was founded in Nov 2016 by Li (Tony) Gang, who is also one of the co-founders of SpeedX Bikes. The bike share brand had initially raised $90m USD of...
Jul 20, 2017 | Crowd Funding, Delivery Excuses, Kickstarter, Leopard, Leopard Pro, SpeedX
This Article continues the Thread from SpeedX Delivery Excuses #5 April 7 2017 – After 6 weeks of silence, another update. In fairness the SpeedX Support Forum had by now opened up and a lot of the information was posted there. “It’s been a good while since our last...
Jun 25, 2017 | Crowd Funding, Delivery Excuses, Kickstarter, Leopard, Leopard Pro, SpeedX
This Article continues the Thread from SpeedX Delivery Excuses #4 January 14 2017 – SpeedX were saying that by now 80% of the Kickstarter orders had been shipped, which was approx 1,000 bikes. “Now we’ve shipped out over 80% of all the Kickstarter orders. It’s a...
May 17, 2017 | Crowd Funding, Delivery Excuses, Kickstarter, Leopard, Leopard Pro, SpeedX
This Article continues the Thread from SpeedX Delivery Excuses #3 December 23 2016 – A ‘quick’ update today – the Packaging of the bikes in Taiwan was ‘wrong’ and they all had to be unboxed and then reboxed correctly. “”Nothing worth having comes easy”...
